Jeez. All this because HRC proposed helping out people who are in jeopardy of losing their homes or may be unable to afford heat in the winter. I’m no economist, but in my reading of The Road to Serdom, Hayek makes it pretty clear that he is not explicitly against government programs that provide a basic level of support to those in unfortunate circumstances or (indeed) government interventions designed to correct unfair market practices. I’m not a fan of HRC, but I don’t see where she says that she wants to set prices or control industry sectors …